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How to use Lockdown Mode: The extreme iPhone security feature that foiled even the FBI

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Feed Name: ZDNet Security

Date Published: 2026-02-06

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

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ZDNET explains Apple's iOS Lockdown Mode, an extreme, reversible security setting intended for high-risk users (e.g., journalists, activists) that significantly restricts messaging, FaceTime, web features, device connections, and network behaviors to reduce attack surface and block many forensic access methods; the guide outlines how to enable it, manage limited exceptions, and disable it, noting a recent case where the FBI reportedly could not extract data from a locked iPhone with Lockdown Mode enabled.

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